Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 10 July 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion (Resumed)

11:00 am

Photo of Eamon RyanEamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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I ask about one aspect of this because it is specific. We are in the middle of devising the new national energy and climate action plan, which requires us to meet the 2030 target, and we have to keep in the back of our minds that the target will probably increase in a few years because of what has just been agreed. We are saying that we are between 47 million and 52 million tonnes short of what we have committed to and------